Saturdays for Sanity

Note on the film featured: The House I Live In (1945) is in the public domain and is preserved by the Library of Congress as part of the National Film Registry. The film is available from the Library here: https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600519/

Saturday morning cartoons for grownups trying to stay sane, stay human, and stay in the fight.

Michelle Kinney and Lawrence Winnerman take on a heavy week with honesty, humor, and a little sanity. They talk about how antisemitism and hate are still with us eighty years after 1945, and what that says about the lessons we never learned. Then it’s Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil refineries, the announcement of live-streamed executions, Trump’s Syracuse rally and the protesters outside, what could happen between Election Day and January, and the new White House press secretary. The conversation then turns to culture and technology: nineties nostalgia, the Elon Musk documentary, Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes film, the Sam Altman movie Artificial, how AI is hollowing out entry-level creative jobs, John Ossoff’s takedown of Mike Collins, and why Felicity on Netflix is this week’s comfort watch.

Watch The House I Live In (1945) from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600519/

Trailers from the show: Artificial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDZplZFnbOk), Musk (https://boingboing.net/2026/09/25/official-trailer-for-musk-documentary.html), and You Can See Everything (https://au.variety.com/2026/film/global/you-can-see-everything-trailer-nathan-fielder-elizabeth-holmes-40633/).

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Join our Saturday morning "cartoons for grownups " while we try to stay sane, stay human, and stay in the fight.

Saturday morning cartoons for grownups trying to stay sane, stay human, and stay in the fight. This week we open with Joe Biden's 2015 speech at Syracuse University, where he went to law school, then Michelle Kinney talks with Julie Roginsky and Dana Dubois about the Cornell case, campus culture, the courageous student journalists at the Cornell Sun, forced arbitration and NDAs, and why the words we use matter. Then we take a breather with Twilight, Judy Blume, and one very unsuccessful phone call.

Watch Joe Biden's Syracuse speech on its own: https://youtu.be/bk6uYmFH5RM?si=tUywOzn-yQc8tLDc

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A lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts loosened its mask rule for one night a week, and the Boston Globe's reporting on the fallout set the internet on fire.

Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Lawrence Winnerman open with Fannie Lou Hamer's 1964 testimony before the Democratic Credentials Committee, then Julie breaks down Friday's Supreme Court opinion, which she says will make it harder for many naturalized citizens to vote, and how to protect your ballot this fall. Michelle then walks through the Boston Globe's reporting on Last Ditch, a struggling lesbian bar whose mask-optional Saturday set off a firestorm, and the panel asks the question at the center of it all: when did we all stop having fun?

Also in this episode: Julie's take on Qatar's influence and where the left spends its energy, Netanyahu's crazypants UN speech, what voters actually care about six weeks out, and the announcement that Democratic pollster Ben Lazarus is joining Mayday for a regular polling series. (Join us Tuesday!) Then Ellie Leonard, who reports on the Epstein files on Substack, drops in, and the panel goes wherever the morning takes it: TV news crushes, the infamous iced-coffee job-interview debate, college stories, and pop culture. Thank you to everyone who supported the show this week. Every dollar goes back into making Mayday possible!

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Saturdays for Sanity is Saturday morning cartoons for grownups trying to stay sane, stay human, and stay in the fight.

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Saturday morning cartoons for grownups trying to stay sane, stay human, and stay in the fight. This week: JFK's 1963 Amherst College address on the arts, the Kennedy Center human chain protest, and Trump's gilded Iwo Jima Memorial mockup. Then, mammograms, breast cancer awareness, Dana's viral boob essay, and Sex and the City nostalgia. Dana signs off partway through, and Michelle and Julie close with Lady Gaga's new baby, wedding traditions across cultures, and a breakdown of Karl Rove and the many flavors of Never Trumper.

00:00 Cold open: JFK's Amherst speech

Lawrence Winnerman's Substack: https://substack.com/@lwinner

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/the-mayday-network/id6754000270